Button-like dress-fastening.



Y No. 896,041. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908.

- R. W. 0. PALMER.

BUTTON LIKE DRESS FASTENING.

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R. W. G. PALMER BUTTON LIKE DRESS FASTENING.

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'ROBERT WORTLEY OLOUGH PALMER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BUTTON-LIKE DRESS-FASTENING.

Application filed September 3, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT WoRT EY CLOUGH PALMER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button-Like Dress-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in the improvements hereinafter described in the connection of the heads to the other parts of button like dress fastenings such as sleeve links and collar studs for the purpose of facilitating insertion thereof into button holes.

According to the said invention radial or approximately radial recesses are formed in the backs or innersides of the heads of the said articles extending from the center to the periphery and in the case of sleeve links each end of the coupling part has the form of a spherical knob which knobs are respectively engaged with the heads at the junction of the said recesses in a manner essentially similar to the engagement of the parts of a ball and socket joint.

In the case of a collar stud the head and stem part are formed separately and the stem part has a knob at its end by which it is connected to the head as described with refer ence to sleeve links.

A sleeve link and a collar stud made according to this invention are illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings hereinafter described.

Figures 1 and 2 of the said drawings are respectively a back view and an edge view of the link with the heads side to side. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views with the heads end to end and Fig. 5 is a separate view of the coupling part. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are side views of the collar stud. In Fig. 6 the parts are represented in the relative positions which they occupy when the stud is in wear and in Figs. 7 and 8 in their relative positions for passing the head through a button hole the head being shown in edge view and underface view respectively in the said Figs. 7 and S. Fig. 9 is a section taken on the-line A A Fig. 1, Fig. 10is a section taken on the line B B Fig. 8 and Figs. 11 and 12 are separate views of modified forms of the coupling part of a sleeve link. The said Figs. 9 and 10 are drawn to double the scale of the other figures of the drawings.

In the following description of the said drawings the parts thereof are referred to by the letters marked thereon the same letters Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Serial No. 391,197.

of reference being used to indicate the same parts 1n the several figures of each of the aforesald articles.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 5 and 9 a a are the sockets are formed partly in the plate por' tions of the head parts a a as shown in Fig. 9 and partly by the upstanding overhanging converging extremities of the portions between the recesses b b. The said recesses extend from the center to the periphery of each of the head parts and the bottoms of the recesses are parallel to the general plane of each of those parts and distant below the centers of the knobs c c one-half the diameter of the stem portion of the coupling part 0* and the width of each of the said recesses b b at the end next the said knobs must be at least equal to the diameter of the said stem portion of the coupling part. The said recesses thus permit of the coupling part 0* being turned down into any one of them par allel to the head part in which it is formed their function being to receive the said coupling part when the parts are brought into line as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 and also to allow relatiye angular movement of the parts 'a, and 0* through 180 except at the mere points of convergence of the parts between the recesses.

When the parts are in the relative positions illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 engagement of the article with the button holes of a cuff can be effected with great facility owing to the absence of any obstructive projection and when so engaged the means of connection with the coupling part admits of the heads being freely turned to their ordinary relative positions illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

The coupling part 0* may be articulated as exemplified in Fig. 11 or it may consist of a piece of chain having the knobs c c at its ends as exemplified in Fig. 12.

Referring-to Figs. 6, 7 8 and 10 illustrating the collar stud (Z (Z are the recesses at back of the head part with which in a socket at the junction of the said recesses the knob e at the end of the stem f is engaged the engagement being similar to that of one of the head parts with the coupling part of the sleeve link already described.

For insertion into a button hole the relative positions of the head and the shank of the collar stud are as illustrated in Figs. 7 and S and when the stud is in wear they are as illustrated in Fig. 6.

1. A button like dress fastening comprising a head part having a plurality of recesses in its back extending from the center to the periphery thereof, the bottoms of said recesses being parallel to the general plane of said part and further having in its back a socket at the junction of said recesses partly formed by the material between them and also comprising another part and a spherical knob thereon engaged in said socket, the bot toms of said recesses being distant below the center of the said socket one half the diameter gt the stem of the part having the said kno 2. A sleeve link comprising two head parts each having in its back a plurality of recesses extending from the center to the periphery thereof, the bottoms of said recesses being arallel to the general plane of said parts and further having in its back a socket at the junction of said recesses partly formed'by the material between them and also comprising a coupling and spherical knobs on its ends which knobs are respectively engaged in the sockets of the'head parts, the bottoms of said recesses also being distant below the center of the said sockets one half the diameter of the part of the coupling intermediate of the end knobs.

ROBERT WORTLEY OLOUGH PALMER,

Witnesses:

PERoY CHARLES RUsHEN, PERCY CHARLES GIDDINGs. 

